Subj : Re: Books
To   : Mortar
From : Jimmy Anderson
Date : Sun May 04 2025 15:04:00

-=> Mortar wrote to Jimmy Anderson <=-

 Mo>   Re: Re: Books
 Mo>   By: Jimmy Anderson to Ogg on Sat May 03 2025 15:48:53

 > My mom> would go to town on Saturday morning to get
 > groceries and she's drop me off at the library.

 Mo> Similar story, though I don't remember if my Ma hung around or not.  I
 Mo> was about seven or eight and didn't spend a lot of time in the kiddie
 Mo> section.  I was more interested in what the big kids were reading, so I
 Mo> was usually in the Young Adult section.

I did graduate to that, which is where I got my first taste of 'deeper'
sci-fi and time travel stuff. :-) 

 Mo> In fact, that's where I got my first sci-fi book, A Wrinkle in Time by
 Mo> Madeleine L'Engle.  Been a sci-fi reader ever since.

Mine too!!! Tried to revisit it a few years ago and just didn't hold
the same appeal to me. Probably because I'm pushing 60 now. :-)

 Mo>   Another book I
 Mo> remember from back then, but haven't seen it since, is, The Shy
 Mo> Stegosaurus by Evelyn S. Lampman.  There were two in the series, but I
 Mo> don't remember which I read.  I don't remember the story details, but I
 Mo> know I liked it and I've never forgotten I read it...weird.

Interesting. Never heard of it. :-)

It was years later, but a buddy of mine turned me onto the Guardians
of the Flame series. A group of D&D players get pulled into another
world where they are actually IN the world. Was very good too!

 Mo> For some reason, I was also into flags of the world.  There were these
 Mo> pocket-sized books that had nothing but pictures of flags froom all
 Mo> over the world, not just the usual country/state/province, etc., but
 Mo> variations on those flags used for different purposes/occations.  I
 Mo> would often draw some of the flags I saw and put 'em on the fridge.

Not something I was into, but that's cool!

 Mo> I was also into chess books.  Didn't know how to play, but I found the
 Mo> mechanics facinating.  My favorites were the ones that showed
 Mo> move-by-move of games from famous chess players.  These often included
 Mo> lots of pics of the board as the game progressed.  Ironically, I never
 Mo> got any good at it, so I switched my attention to backgammon, which I
 Mo> did got good at.  Still, I thourghly those books.

Learned chess and backgammon both. I liekd chess okay, but I prefer
the latter as well. :-) Ever play on boardgamearena.com ?


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